Every prosecution witness of fact turned hostile, yet the dying declaration stood: the Allahabad High Court has held that it cannot be disbelieved in toto on that ground alone, confirming the life sentences of a husband and his parents and acquitting two co-accused who were never identified. Prayagraj: Relying on the dying declaration of a […]
Only the newly added Section 108 BNS allegation, and nothing beyond it: that is the limit the Madhya Pradesh High Court has set on the Giribala Singh bail plea amendment, with the CBI saying its probe into the dowry death allegation is still on. Jabalpur: Allowing the Giribala Singh bail plea amendment only in part […]
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed former district judge Giribala Singh to amend her regular bail application in the Twisha Sharma case, as the CBI’s chargesheet has dropped the dowry death charge under Section 80(2) BNS against her and added abetment of suicide under Section 108 BNS, and has listed the matter on October 8.
The Allahabad High Court has refused to quash dowry death proceedings against a mother-in-law, holding that a post-mortem opinion of death by myocardial infarction does not by itself establish a natural death where cruelty and dowry demand are alleged soon before it; whether the medical condition was induced is a matter for trial.
A woman secured an accelerated mutual-consent divorce after undertaking before the Family Court to withdraw a pending Section 498A case against her former husband, then refused to do so. The Calcutta High Court quashed the proceedings under Section 482, holding that with the marriage dissolved, all claims settled and the complainant remarried, continuing the trial served no public interest and was a manifest abuse of process.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has given the CBI a week to respond to the regular bail application of former district judge Giribala Singh in the Twisha Sharma dowry death case. Singh, mother-in-law of the deceased, denies the allegations. The matter is listed for September 21 and nothing has been established at trial.
